Contributed Photo/Courtesy of GCSO: David Paul Brumley, 20, previously pleaded guilty to attempted child molestation and is set to be sentenced on a second charge at the end of August. He recently was booked into the Graham County Adult Detention Facility on a theft charge.
By Jon Johnson
SAFFORD – David Paul Brumley, 20, was convicted on two counts of attempted molestation of a child and is currently a free man . . . but that could soon change.
In May 2018, Brumley signed a plea agreement and plead no contest to one count of attempted molestation of a child and guilty to a second count as well. The charges are Class-3 felonies and dangerous crimes against children in the second degree.
The agreement dropped additional charges of sexual conduct with a minor, molestation of a child, and sexual abuse.
The case stems from the accusation of at least two separate incidents that reportedly occurred between April 30, 2016, and Dec. 31, 2017, with a male relative who was under the age of 10 at the time and Brumley was 16 and 17. (See Gila Herald: Young man with troubled past charged with child molestation – April 2, 2018)
According to his plea agreement, Brumley would serve a period of not less than 180 days and not more than 365 days in jail on the first count of attempted molestation of a child and would then be placed on supervised lifetime sex offender probation for at least 10 years. He was initially sentenced to jail in June 2018.
The second count’s sentencing was deferred until about six months after he was released from jail to see if he had been successful on sex offender probation. If he is not, or does not receive a positive recommendation from the probation department, he will be sentenced to prison for a term of 5 to 15 years, depending upon mitigating and aggravating circumstances. His sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 26, from 11:30 – 12 p.m. If he is deemed successful on probation, the court may place him on an additional sex offender probation to run concurrently with the one he is already on and no prison time will be sentenced.
On April 26, there was an order to modify his conditions of probation and by May 8 he was back in custody on a theft arrest. He last appeared in Gila Valley Consolidated Court on the theft charge July 9.
